Mélanie Perron

Mélanie Perron is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Laurentian University's School of Social Sciences. Her office is located in the Arts Building (A-241), and she can be contacted via email at mperron@laurentian.ca or phone at 705.675.1151 ext. 4010.

Education includes:

• Postdoctorat, Université du Québec en Outaouais
• PhD Psychology, Ottawa University
• BA Psychology, Ottawa University

Academic Appointments:

• Associate Professor, Psychology Department, Laurentian University (2014-2020)
• Assistant Professor, Psychology Department, Laurentian University (2007-2014)

Her research investigates emotion processing through facial expression analysis and eye-tracking, with emphases on:

• Smile authenticity and emotional residue in clinical populations
• Child development of emotion recognition capabilities
• Perceptual-attentional mechanisms in fear/surprise differentiation
• Visual cognition during shared reading activities

She employs rigorous experimental designs to examine how children and adults decode emotional cues.

Publications demonstrate consistent focus on emotion perception across developmental and clinical contexts, with recent work (2016-2020) examining:

• Substance use disorders and emotional functioning
• Schizophrenia-related expression judgment differences
• Pedagogical strategies for emotion comprehension
• Cross-cultural emotion recognition patterns

No scientific awards or lab affiliations are mentioned in the source material. Student advising and grant activities are not detailed.